Problem with heating (chimney liner)

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Hi everyone,

I'm posting this on behalf of my uncle really. He has been renovating a bungalow for the past 10 years (long project!) and is on the home straight now (i.e. fitting kitchen and other stuff).

He has come acros a problem, however, with the chimney. He recently bought a new woodburner for the lounge without assessing the state of the chimney. When he returned and investigated, the chimney liner which is currently installed is approximately 5 feet short from the bottom of the chimney. Therefore, when the woodburner is in position there is a 5 feet gap between the woodburner outlet and the start of the chimney liner. The problem is how the best way to go about inserting a short piece of liner from the woodburner to the existing liner.

Apparently flexi-liner is a possibility but how that would fix to the existing liner I have no idea - due to the fact you can't reach it from underneath. Is there some way of shoving flexi-liner down the top of the chimney and fixing it in place at the top?

Or is there a better way of overcoming this problem?

Any suggestions or tips would be most grateful.

Thanks

James
 
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The liner should be one piece from the fixing at the pot to the fixing on the register plate. You really should remove the old one and put a new one in.
 
and for a woodburner you need a pretty solid liner, not that flexible bacofoil stuff you can use with a gas fire.

The supplier of the stove should be familiar with the need, and may supply something suitable.
 
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Have you notified your local Building Control Officer before working on the chimney liner.

"Flues are controlled services as defined in Regulation 2 of the Building Regulations, that is to say they are services in relation to which Part J of Schedule 1 imposes requirements. If renovation, refurbishment or repair amounts to or involves the provision of a new or replacement flue liner, it is "building work" within the meaning of Regulation 3 of the Building Regulations. "Building work" and must not be undertaken without prior notification to the local authority.
 

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